Replied by Mama To Many (Tennessee) on 05/15/2015
Dear Josie,
My husband doesn't like ACV in water either. I buy capsules for him and he takes them fine. That might be an option.
A friend of mine takes a capsule of cayenne pepper each day and it reduced her blood pressure. I am not sure about taking cayenne if he is on blood thinners though.
Another friend went off coumadin and instead takes garlic, hawthorne and cayenne. I am not sure of the amounts. But that helped his blood pressure and he was no longer having Afib.
I hope you find a good solution for him!
~Mama to Many~
Replied by Mrs. A. (London, UK) on 05/20/2015
Josie - for your husband's high blood pressure, try Niacin (vitamin B3) - but be sure to read up about it first, becauseits side effect, the famous Niacin Flush, can be highly alarming if you're not expecting it: one turns bright red and itches violently all over - entirely harmless, though, and disappearing after about half an hour.
Presumably you've got your own BP monitor, and will be able to check niacin's (in my case, anyway) near-iinstant and truly miraculous effect - reducing my systolic reading from
160 (say) to 120 (say) withinan hour.
My method of taking it is to empty a 500mg capsule into a cup and to scoop up the powder between halves ofsliced grapes, or any juicy fruit would do. In that way the powder gets to you faster and you're not ingesting the capsule.
You might like to read Abram Hoffer on Niacin - for its safety, mainly, because he was using it for other purposes.
You may also care to read up about beetroot juice, the blood pressure lowering effects of which (amazingly for mainstream medicine) were tested a few years ago at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, and found efficacious. I have a juicer and yes, it does work, though less dramatically than niacin - but the downside there is the appalling red mess from the raw beetroots, even for a juicing fanatic like myself.
